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prewritings

prewritings is the plural of prewriting.

Meaning of prewriting

Noun

prewriting (countable and uncountable, plural prewritings)

  1. A first draft, or plan made before the actual writing starts.
    • During the all-important prewriting phase, effective writers use questions to determine what they know, and what they need to learn more about.2005, Vicki Urquhart, Monette McIver, Teaching Writing in the Content Areas, page 76

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Questions about prewritings

What is prewritings the plural of?
Prewritings is the plural of prewriting.

Words near prewritings in the dictionary

  1. prewrite
  2. prewriter
  3. prewriters
  4. prewrites
  5. prewriting
  6. prewritings
  7. prewritten
  8. prewrote
  9. Prews
  10. prex
  11. prexactly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prewritings (page history and authors); prewriting (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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